Contact Information, Etc. Re: Corn transcript

[Liza Featherstone]

I actually don't think that, in this age of email, people need left
journalists to advertise protests in advance. The same people who read the
alternative media also subscribe to email lists on which they get tons of
information about major actions. You can also get that kind of information
on Indymedia. (And the alternative media is not generally an effective way
of reaching people who don't have Internet access, either -- you need
churches, community centers or Nathanesque door-knocking for that) I myself
never learn about major actions from any print media. That part of our role
is gone -- there are now much more efficient ways to publicize actions.

Liza 


> From: Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu>
> Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 15:25:50 -0500
> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> Subject: Re: Contact Information, Etc. Re: Corn transcript
> 
>> In fact I think NION, United for Peace and that whole complex are
>> doing a good job of doing that, considering the newness of their
>> coalitions.
>> 
>> Liza
> 
> Not yet good enough.  If you want to help out NION and United for
> Peace (or any other organization for any other purpose), you want to
> move from simple reporting to "advocacy journalism."  Stay in close
> contact with their national organizers, get to learn about their
> upcoming actions way ahead of time, do write-ups about each upcoming
> action at least twice (first at least a couple of months ahead of
> time, second a reminder shortly before the action), and do at least
> one follow-up report after each action.  For instance, yesterday was
> NION's National Day of Student Action.  You could have helped them by
> writing up about the action ahead of time, in such a way as to make
> your article serve as advertisement for the action as well.
> 
> Also, educate the national organizers of NION and United for Peace
> that *planning ahead and timely announcement* of upcoming actions are
> the key to success in mobilization.  For instance, the United for
> Peace folks sent me on *November 14, 2002* the following announcement
> (which I had already forwarded here and elsewhere) of an upcoming
> action that starts on *November 28, 2002*.
> 
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> 
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> 
> Giving unpaid volunteer organizers scattered nationwide *only 14
> days* to organize for an action in D.C. is absurd.
> -- 
> Yoshie
> 
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